Culture
Sights Unseen: Hrant Dink’s Site of Memory
“I have a special affection for 23 Aprils. This date is also the day my wife and I got married. Our nuptial night took place on the night between 23 April and 24 April. This […]
Articles by Eric Nazarian
Op-Eds
Hrant: A Light in the Darkening
The following is a reflection piece by screenwriter, filmmaker, and photojournalist Eric Nazarian on the 10th commemoration of Hrant Dink’s assassination, which took place in Istanbul on Jan. 19. *** Special for the Armenian Weekly On […]
Letters to the Editor
Nazarian: Letter to Recai
The first time we met Recai Altay in 2013, our small group of seven had just walked down from Soorp Garabed church to the town square of Chungush. Somehow, he had heard Armenians were in […]
Op-Eds
Nazarian: Dink and the Persistence of Hope
The following is the text of a speech written by filmmaker Eric Nazarian for the Hrant Dink commemoration event in Los Angeles on Jan. 19, organized by the Organization of Istanbul Armenians. Nazarian was unable […]
Op-Eds
The Ghosts of Bank Ottoman Past
Special for the Armenian Weekly The story never ends when it comes to Armenians and Turks, the genocide, and the blowback of the aftermath. It’s in our genes, the air we breathe, the memories we never […]
Opinion
A Wish for Aladdin and the Future of Atonement
The following is the text of the speech given by Eric Nazarian in Ankara, Turkey, on Jan. 17, 2015, for the conference, ‘1915, Hrant and Justice.’ Henry Theriault, chair of the Philosophy Department at Worcester State […]
Opinion
Nazarian: The Blackberries of Kharpert
Special for the Armenian Weekly It’s been an unspeakably bloody summer in the Middle and Near East. The awful war in Gaza, the beheading of James Foley, the sniper shootings on border villagers in Tavush, […]
Opinion
Nazarian: Ninety-Nine Years Ago Today
Impressions from the Armenian Genocide commemoration in Istanbul Ninety-nine years ago in the wee spring hours, Ottoman-era policemen marched through the streets of old Constantinople. Over the course of that fateful night, and the weeks […]
Opinion
Hrant: Seven Years on the Seventh Day
Special for the Armenian Weekly It is Sunday, January 19, 2014. Seven years ago today Hrant Dink was assassinated in broad daylight on one of the busiest streets in Istanbul. I joined the family for […]
Opinion
‘Bastards of the Infidels’
Reflections on the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Conference on Islamized Armenians “Bastards,” “infidels,” “remains of the sword” were the derogatory words directed at Armenian survivors of the genocide in Turkey as well as their offspring. Under […]